Boylston Parks and Recreation joins with others to offer a series of day trips

Thursday

Feb 13, 2014 at 6:00 AM

By Joni Koogler BANNER CORRESPONDENT

BOYLSTON — Looking for some fun day trips with someone else doing the driving for you? Karen Barber, the coordinator of Boylston's Park and Recreation, has just the answer for you.

"We've got some fantastic day trips for all ages planned from May through December this year," Barber said.

Barber said Boylston has teamed up with neighboring communities to help ensure the trips happen.

"We've joined with a few other towns, so that we could fill a bus for the tours," Barber said. "Some trips planned in the past had to be canceled because we couldn't get the 40 or 50 people needed to fill the bus."

Clinton, Rutland and Sterling are the towns joining with Boylston for the day trips.

"I was speaking to a few other Parks and Rec. heads, who said the same thing happened in their towns," Barber said. "And that's how the idea of combining towns came about."

"This is a great way for us to fill a bus," Kaplan said. "In the past, we had mostly elderly sign up for the tours, but we want to get more families involved, now.

"Many times, you can get better rates for things during the weekdays, and the seniors are the ones available at those times. Many of these upcoming trips, though, are on weekends, and we hope we can fill the bus each time," Kaplan said.

Each town would only need to send 10 residents to ensure a trip is held.

"Some trips will be better attended by people in one town or the other, but we can mix and match so we can get the numbers," she said.

"We can make it work with a few towns," Barber said.

Barber was quick to credit Kaplan for making the joint effort a reality.

"Emily was just great," Barber said. "She did all the leg work."

All the trips will depart from and return to the Shaw's parking lot, 1175 Main St., in Clinton. Each trip will be aboard a luxury Silver Fox motor coach that, for those long drives, have CD and DVD players, as well as WiFi.

Boylston Parks and Recreation can be reached at (774) 317-9254, or is on Facebook.